Hi andrey! I misread your original post, and thought you said that you were using NI hardware and software. That was clearly not what you wrote, and I'm very sorry for that mistake.
The driver I directed to is the driver use in LabVIEW running on Linux. That driver can't be used standalone. If you wanted to interact with your hardware without using LabVIEW, you are limited to using ANSI C since you are running Linux. We do have a software package that can be purchased that can be used in ANSI C to interact with hardware using VISA protocols. The package is called NI-VISA Development Software and can be found at the link below.
NI-VISA - Universal I/O Interface Software
https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/product/ni-visa.html
This software includes a VISA license, and allows ANSI C to use VISA commands in compiled programs. However, the programming will still need to be done in C, and to my knowledge, will not have a graphical user interface associated with it. Regarding your question about working with serial and GPIB, VISA is able to handle communication from serial and GPIB devices, but as I mentioned, the program you are running will have to handle the communication. In short, the Development Software is not a standalone applicaiton, it is more like a library that adds additional functionality to the ANSI C programming language.
I hope this helps!
